So as not to waste space on the Ned thread. Maybe commentary to come. Post your own list if you want. I don't care if you waste space on this thread:
1 Diamanda Galas – Vena Cava
2 Sonny Sharrock – Ask the Ages
3 Gyorgy Ligeti/Par Norgard – Violin Concertos etc (perf Christina Astrand/Danish NRSO) [mostly for the Ligeti]
4 Fred Frith Guitar Quartet – Ayaya Moses
5 Morton Feldman – Neither (perf Sarah Leonard/Radio Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt)
6 La Monte Young & the Theatre of Eternal Music Brass Band – The Second Dream of the High-Tension Stepdown Transformer from the Four Dreams of China
7 Evan Parker/Sainkho Namtchylak – Mars Song
8 CCMC – Decisive Moments
9 George Crumb – Makrokosmos Vols I & II (perf Jo Boatright)
10 John Cage – The Seasons (perf Margaret Leng Tan/American Composers Orchestra)
11 Pole – CD1
12 Pan Sonic – A
13 Derek Bailey/Pat Metheny/Gregg Bendian/Paul Wertico – The Sign of 4
14 Ryoji Ikeda - +/-
15 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
16 Jim O’ Rourke - Scend
17 Pulp – Different Class
18 Lalgudi Jayraman - Violin
19 Ground Zero – Revolutionary Pekinese Opera
20 Goodie Mob – Still Standing
21 Eugene Chadbourne/Paul Lovens – Patrizio: A Suite to the Waters of the World
22 Iancu Dumitrescu – ED MN 1005
23 Kadri Gopalnath - Saxophone
24 Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
25 Terry Riley – Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band “All Night Flight”
26 Hariprasad Chaurasiya – Ragas Durgawati and Mishra Shivaranjani
27 Eliot Fisk – Sequenza! [pretty much only for the Berio sequenza, which is earth-shattering enough to justify including this. Otherwise I have no need to hear Fisk play traditional classical music. He's kind of brittle and dry, if technically flawless.]
28 Iva Bittova
29 Pat Metheny – Zero Tolerance for Silence
30 Ikue Mori – Garden
31 Diamanda Galas – Malediction and Prayer
32 LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out
33 Missy Elliot – Supa Dupa Fly
34 I. S. O.
35 Aube - Cardiac Strain
36 Dr Chitti Babu - Veena
37 Fushitsusha – Allegorical Misunderstanding
38 Voivod – Angel Rat
39 Fushitsusha – Withdrawe, This Sable Disclosure Ere Devot’d
40 Henry Kaiser/Jim O’Rourke – Tomorrow Knows Where You Live
41 Fred Frith – Quartets
42 Dr Balamuralikrishnan – Carnatic Vocal
43 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
44 Maryanne Amacher – Sound Characters
45 Tony Conrad w/ Faust – Outside the Dream Syndicate
46 Phill Niblock – Music by Phill Niblock
47 Ryoji Ikeda - 0 [degrees] C
48 My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
49 Main – Motion Pool
50 Arto Lindsay Trio – Aggregates 1-26
51 Magic Hour – No Excess Is Absurd
52 Dr N Ramani – Fascinating Flute
53 Pixies – Trompe le Monde
54 Portishead - Dummy
55 De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising
56 Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
57 Iannis Xenakis – Electronic Music
58 Nirvana – In Utero
59 Almighty Trigger Happy - Disturbo
60 Beautifuzz
61 Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
62 Sonic Youth – Dirty
63 Radiohead – OK Computer
64 Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
65 Endwar – ENON: One Thirsty Afternoon
66 Sonic Youth – Goo
67 Henry Threadgill – Makin’ a Move
68 Marc Ribot – Shoe String Symphonettes
69 The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency and I
70 Shudder to Think – Funeral at the Movies
71 V/A – The Best of Acid Jazz, Vol 2
72 REM – Monster
73 Sonic Youth – Washing Machine [mostly for "The Diamond Sea"]
74 Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
75 Nirvana – Nevermind
76 Goodie Mob – World Party
77 Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Return to the 36 Chambers
78 V/A - Downtown Does the Beatles [mostly for the Lydia Lunch, King Missile, Eugene Chadbourne, and Buddha Pest. All the brass band type stuff sucks.]
79 Okara – Months Like Years
80 Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
81 Shotmaker – Mouse Ear Forget Me Not
82 Nirvana – Unplugged In New York
83 Television
84 Tactile – Inscape
85 Jack Vorvis/Michael Snow – Black and White: Incredible Drums and Piano Duets
86 Sonic Youth – Goodbye 20th Century
87 Sonic Youth/Jim O’Rourke – SYR 3
88 The Ex – Mudbird Shivers
89 The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
90 Gorguts – Obscura
91 Superchunk – No Pocky for Kitty
92 Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet [at this point, we get into albums I don't actually listen to much now]
93 Public Enemy – Apocalypse ‘91
94 Kubelka - We're Gonna Do It Like This Now
95 The Magnetic Fields – Get Lost
96 Susie Ibarra/Assif Tsahar – Home Cookin’
97 Tori Amos – Under the Pink
98 Fugazi – Steady Diet of Nothing
99 Fugazi – Red Medicine
100 V/A - Firestarter (Century Black compilation)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)
fifteen years pass...